Study: "roughly half of all professing Christian men and one-fifth of all professing Christian women admit to being porn addicts"

A lot of times the underlying motivation for pornography etc. is not purely sexual lust. It’s loneliness, or anger at God for not giving XYZ gift. Or whatever.

Well, that’s the sort of thing I simply don’t think has any basis in reality. I can’t imagine anyone saying they got into pornography because God didn’t give them something and they’re angry at Him about it. I think you have to be told that’s your motivation by someone else with a theory. Lonely? Maybe, in the same sense that bored people seek cheap thrills that require little effort. That’s what porn is…a cheap high with bad consequences…rather like a drug.

I do agree that this sin is self-focused and puts something higher than God…but I wouldn’t call it pride. I guess it depends on one’s definition of pride. I understand it to be an inflated sense of one’s status, accomplishments, looks, etc. It is a certain kind of self-focus, but the kind it seems to me that is the opposite of the self-focus of a porn addict. I would not equate all self-focus as pride. In this case it is idolatry.